Exchange offerings

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will launch a Global Developing Markets Program to encourage volume growth in countries that have not been active in CBOT

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The New York Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Nymex) will offer spread trading for its full-sized, physically delivered benchmark energy contracts on Globex. Nymex also will launch miNY platinum and palladium futures on Globex in August. Both will be financially settled. It also will list its Brent crude oil contract and move after-hours trading of energy futures contracts to Globex.